The agreement to design and market phones starting in Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populous country but an under-penetrated market, is a boon to a mega-manufacturer trying to grow its margins while making a play for a bigger slice of the global mobile devices market.

About Poornima

"Poornima Gupta writes about technology out of San Francisco, covering consumer and enterprise device makers Apple, HP and Dell. She previously spent five years in Detroit covering the crisis-ridden U.S. automotive sector that resulted in two of the biggest bankruptcy filings in the industrial world. She won a SABEW award for reporting on the failed merger between GM and Chrysler, and their negotiations with the federal government."